In March 2006, at a psychotherapy conference, John O’Donohue, an Irish poet and philosopher, asked a question that turned my life around. “What do you think happens to your unloved lives,” he asked. After a pause, he added that his belief that our lives “travel right along side of us, and that we can pick them up at any time.” It was then, after a rewarding career in the healing arts, that I decided to “pick up” where my life left off some three decades before, as an artist.

To my delight, my life is now unfolding just the way O’Donohue describes when he writes, “I would love to live like a river flows . . . carried by the surprise of its own unfolding.”